The Namibian and Botswana governments may be risking their water resources for oil and gas revenue. They have licensed a Canadian firm, ReconAfrica, to prospect for oil in the Cubango Okavango River ...

On September 23, 2025, it was time once again: The TRAVELBOOK AWARDs were presented in Berlin. One of the categories: the most sustainable safari destinations in the world. Among the nominees was a ...

Bouncing with the updrafts in the back of a single-engine Cessna, I watch the slim shadow of our aeroplane dance across the marbled expanse of the Okavango Delta, some 500ft below. “If we go down out ...

Celebrating its first birthday this month, Atzaró Okavango–a singular newcomer to Botswana’s incomparable Okavango Delta–is setting a new standard for luxury safari experiences in a country widely ...

The hot African sun is turning cool and big and a deep soft orange, and the impala are getting mighty jumpy. They ought to be. A half-kilometer across the grassy bush, we’re watching a pack of eight ...

Botswana’s Okavango Delta, a mazelike series of freshwater lagoons in the middle of the Kalahari Desert, swells to some 6,200 square miles during the wet season of March to September, before shrinking ...

Months after 330 elephants inexplicably died in Botswana, officials identified the cause of the die-off: toxic bacteria in their watering holes.

The Okavango River in Southern Africa is an unlikely oasis and lush paradise in the middle of a hostile desert that supports and feeds an incredible abundance of wildlife. Unlike most rivers that flow ...